Yes, it is mostly a week day event, but there will be a session on Saturday that will include a swap meet- or flea market, of cnc related stuff, as well as access to the vendor exhibits and one seminar. There will be a small charge for people that want to come just Saturday.

Lets not confuse events here. We are talking about a special event, the CNC workshop. This is not a mach or artsoft event, it is the continuation of an event started several years ago, this time being hosted by the techshop. Artsoft is only one of more than a dozen vendors that will be displaying and talking about their products.

Artsoft, really Art, has a long history of training videos, and Brian has made a few so far. As things firm up, and Brian gets the time I am sure he will be making more videos.

In a previous life I did some professional sales training. There were always requests to video the sessions. I found the video disrupted the training to much, and then no one ever sat through the boring video. I think classes only work when you are sitting in them talking to the instructor live.

Sorry I don't have a good answer for those that cannot make it to the session.

We still have a few spaces in the two special classes being run on Monday and Tuesday before the main event opens. These sessions are all day, in depth classes limited to 10 students. You will get all day with Scott- Popa Bear- to learn all about Mach 4 scripting and Lua.

The Monday session is Wizards and mcLua for Mach4 will include:

Overview of McLua mc.mc*********x calls Down and dirty coding guide How to make a Lua module Making a custom macro (to include showing how to use a macro template, and the debugger). Using the wizard template Basic wxLua GUI structure Integrating McLua with wxLua in Wizards

The Tuesday session is Mach4 screen design and ModBus:

Overview of the Screen Designer Editing the PLC and other screen scripts Adding components and how to tie them into Mach4 How to set up ModBus A walkthrough example of making a screen to read/write to a PLC over ModBus